Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists stronger. Despite the foolishly overnamed Air Force "Operation Strangle," the Communists have been able to build up strong defenses extending 20 miles up the peninsula. The U.N. commanders are confident that they can still beat off an offensive, but they are no longer in a position to launch a U.N. offensive without 1) powerful reinforcements, 2) heavy casualties. Said realistic Admiral Joy: "The speed of reaching an armistice is in direct proportion to military pressure . . . The U.N. must now negotiate from a position of stalemate...
Palm trees, flamingoes, and green grass were conspicuously absent yesterday, but nearly 70 men showed up at Briggs Cage anyway to launch the northern equivalent of spring training for the varsity and freshman baseball teams. A large portion of the first practice of the year was devoted to hitting, with both squads taking their cuts against the batting machine and "live" hurlers...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...
...pledge business seemed a fussy sort of rigmarole. But it was a sign that Washington was flexing its slack muscles and bracing itself to launch a policy of determent (i.e., a warning of direct punishment, rather than a mere renewal of battle in Korea) as the best means of preventing a Korean truce from becoming a dangerous trap...
Thomas Sugrue-Roman Catholic journalist and author (Stranger in the Earth, Watch for the Morning)-is upset by discord between Catholics and Protestants. Unlike most Catholics who launch into print on the subject, he thinks that his own church-particularly the church in the U.S.-deserves a good deal of the blame. Author Sugrue's complaint, in the Protestant Christian Herald: the church is mixing in affairs of state and it has no business there. It began to go wrong when Christ's teachings about spiritual authority in man's subjective "inner world" began to be extended...